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“Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.”

Ifs Difficult Views Identity Comfortable Concepts Shakes Something New Difficult Times

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.”

Grows Difficult Understanding Concepts Definitions Temporary Knowledge And Understanding

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.”

Energy Difficult Concepts Subtle

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.”

Ifs Difficult Impossible Information Theory Communication Concepts Transition Engineering

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.”

“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”

“Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge is required for generalities to be understood. They find it hard to grasp the concept of the meaning of their work, assuming this to be a debate that takes place at a lower level than the specialized discussions with their colleagues. When they do generalize, - or "popularize" as it is usually called with a noticeable degree of contempt - they tend to reveal a startling philosophical naiveté.”

Littles Hard Helping Difficult Levels Degrees Understood Concepts Scientist Philosophical Assuming Debate Discussion Contempt Colleagues Generalities Little Help

Book:Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science

Source: Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science

“It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.”

Done Problem Difficult Circumstances Concepts Instance Reasoning Categories Problem Solving Detectives Analogies Pseudo Deductions Inference

Book:To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.”

Ifs Life Humans May Long Universe Difficult Views Civilization Concepts Logic Machines Physics Signals Skulls Hardware Organic Life

Author:Martin Rees

“Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult.”

Difficult Challenges Environment Concepts Driven Video Narrative Digital

Author:Jon Jon Augustavo

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

Littles Use Seems Difficult Term Moral Concepts Abuse Critics Afternoon Decadence

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection